21c Museum Hotel

Way to Go, Ohio

Getting a Massage in a Cincinnati Art Museum

Quick. No time to explain. Just pack a duffel bag, start the car and pick up someone you won’t mind
sitting next to for four-and-a-half hours.

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Oh, fine. We guess there’s a little time. We’ll explain.

You see, 21c Museum Hotel, the newest addition to the bustling Cincinnati nightlife, dining, art,
spa and hotel scene, is now open and waiting for you.

The way we figure it, this is the week before the trickle of holiday parties and ugly-sweater bar crawls
becomes a deluge. This self-contained vacation site is your best chance to cram in some unabashed preholiday
self-indulgence.

You’ll pull up to the former historic Metropole Hotel, which after a century needed someone to shake out
its cobwebs. Plus, it needed wi-fi and some random yellow penguin statues.

See, this is also very much a museum. Quirky art is everywhere. Take a look at it before heading to the 700-square-foot corner suite you reserved, with Italian mid-century furniture and a
Nespresso maker. Then head straight to your appointment for his-and-hers massages in the spa.